BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3484, 14 April 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Close weather,; , fire on Uppei: Plain. Wholesale destruction of grain. ~ Origination -a-'-inyißtery,' Spontaneous combustion! Ked. Star football Club plained d 3efeatatCar,tertofl, ' i & • Milt difficulty V not-yet settled. ' \ ..",-[ Au -. atrdoious murder' reported

■ Several cases of breach of Rabbi' Aot before R.M. Court. . The Lojidon Sobool;Board'is siid to havo v deolared in 'favor of 'free education. Thero is a rumour that the Chicago stockyards are about to Be sold to'an English syndicate for 180,000,000. : It is said that the total tonnage of tho world, steam and sail, is in round numbers 21,000,000, of which 60 per cent is British. Many persons uso the phrase" a trico" who have no conception of its meaning, A thrice is a sixtieth part of a second of time. The publishers of Stanley's book announce the title of his work to bo "Darkest Africa; Tho Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of.Emin." Thoro wore 2,808 suicides in England last yoar, which is the largest number ever recorded. Males largely outnumber the females, Five years ago there were five girls' schools in Yokohama and Tokio. To-day there are moro than tbirty./apd all wjll patronised. The almost complete score of the opera of Tannhanser, written and signed by, Wagner, has been discovered in' the ruins of the Zurich Theatre. Quite a number of Harvard's medical itudonts are taking lessons at the Boston Cooking School. That is good medical instruction surely. The number of Gorman emigrants •in 188 D was 00,250. Inilßßßitwas ,95,515.. Last year's emigration was : less than any year since 1880, . [ _'• It seeniß that Edison's phonograph is outdoiio .by Berliner's gammophono. In a competition between them at Berlin a few days ago the latter watf declared the victor.